MSMN 2012 - 2012 International Workshop on Mobile Sensor & Multimedia Networks (MSMN 2012)

Mobile sensor & multimedia networks (MSMN) have received tremendous attentions from both academic community and industrial field for many years, since these networks own numerous exciting applications, e.g., industrial process control, video surveillance, structural health monitoring, advanced health care delivery, traffic enforcement and control systems. To eventually achieve these mobile sensor & multimedia combined applications, a lot of efforts still need to be done, since mobility and multimedia streaming in sensor networks positioned many rather changing and interesting issues, e.g., mobile network self-organization, limited resource intelligent allocation, cross-layer optimization, and intelligent content-aware transmission.
In this workshop, we solicit research papers with respect to all aspects of mobile sensor & multimedia networks. Particularly, we are interested in the research submissions focusing on the following aspects. 1) Mobility issue: the large size of multimedia stream generally requires multiple and stable paths for data transmission. When the multimedia source node or the sink node is mobile, data transmission scheme which still keeps the multiple and stable paths is essentially necessary. 2) Duty-cycle problem: if the sensor nodes in the wireless multimedia sensor networks are duty-cycled, the network topology and connectivity of the total sensor networks can be very dynamical and uncertain. Investigating the sleep scheduling scheme which can guarantee both the network connectivity as well as the multipath data transmission is rather important. 3) Query processing issue: query processing (e.g., top-k, k nearest neighbor) can be very favorable for further enhancing the application of mobile sensor & multimedia networks, e.g., issuing a top-k query to find out the top-k areas with the highest temperature readings during forest fire monitoring. New query processing method aware of the mobility and multimedia transmission is unexplored and quite valuable.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art research contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address various aspects of analysis, design, optimization, implementation, and application of mobile sensor & multimedia networks.
Topics Of Interest (Not limited to)
1. Scalable and flexible network architectures, deployments, and heterogeneous applications
2. Semantic annotation for multimedia streams processing and management
3. Protocols for supporting real-time and reliable multimedia streaming
4. Energy-efficient multimedia gathering, transmission, traffic management, and sensor data management
5. Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design, and optimization for effective communications
6. Context/content aware approaches for facilitating multimedia streaming
7. Secure multimedia streaming and transmission, QoS and admission control
8. Capacity modeling, performance analysis, and theoretical analysis
9. Cooperative transmission for multimedia delivery, and collaborative in-network processing
10. Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions
11. Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding
12. Topology control and synchronization protocols
13. Distributed source coding, and lightweight multimedia encoding techniques
14. In-network and distributed storage techniques
15. MIMO techniques for multimedia delivery
16. Experimental and test bed studies, simulation tools
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 1 June 2012
Author Notification: 20 July 2012
Final Manuscript Due: 20 Aug 2012